Actor Meshach Taylor, best known for his role as the ex-con deliveryman Anthony Bouvier in the hit 1980s sitcom "Designing Women," died Saturday at his home in Altadena. He was 67. The cause of his death was colorectal cancer, said his wife, Bianca Ferguson Taylor. Taylor had roles in several TV shows before appearing in what was supposed to be a single episode of "Designing Women" during its first season in 1986. But his comic scenes with cast members Delta Burke and Dixie Carter went so well, Taylor said in 2011 on "The Wendy Williams Show," that the creators of the sitcom kept him on. "They said there is something that's happening here that we...

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Actor Meshach Taylor, best known for his role as the ex-con deliveryman Anthony Bouvier in the hit 1980s sitcom "Designing Women," died Saturday at his home in Altadena. He was 67.
The cause of his death was colorectal cancer, said his wife,...